> But --- does jigdo have any kind of indirection in place , eg to get a > list of mirrors and use them ?? It does use a list of mirros for the debian. I haven't really looked into it too deeply. Furthermore the jigdo-lite program is really just a shell script - should be easy to get it to behave however we want it (it just runs wget). > Or could yum be used as a wrapper around jigdo maybe to pull stuff down > using fastestmirror or maybe even dags stuff ?? I would really like to see dynamic DNS resolution based on source IP giving out the address of the nearest centos compatible mirror - then it would 'just work'. > Otherwise it gets messy because mirrors have different file structures, so > just using CNAME's wont work. And that's the problem... But we could possibly work with them to get this working - at least for http this is relatively trivial (just setup a virtual domain for whatever global name we would decide on like mirror.centos.org). > The trouble I see is that if a user doesnt have a local mirror or > local copy of a set if isos then downloading the packages individually > from a mirror may be less efficient than downloading an iso / set of isos, > and certainly without mirror redirect and fastestmirror it is a non starter ... There aren't that many files on a cd, so the extra time spent opening closing connections shouldn't really be significant - unless you have an extremely big pipe. But - yes - we would want each user to use the closest possible mirror. > The fedora guys have beern working on stuff that we also ought to look at > , and we should look at metalinks while we are at it. No idea what this is... :-) Cheers, Maciej.